Johannesburg Water SOC (Pty) Ltd, the water and sanitation service provider for the City of Johannesburg supplies 1 500 000 cubic metres of tap water and treats 940 000 cubic metres of wastewater everyday (2012). It also provides basic water and sanitation to a million people in informal areas.
In order to ensure the high quality of its services and the integrity of the environment in which it operates, Johannesburg Water maintains a comprehensive chemical and microbiological laboratory service within the company and for the CoJ departments from a centrally located laboratory complex and complex and two satellite facilities.
The laboratories which are accredited by SANAS to ISO/IEC 17025 standard are staffed by highly qualified scientists and chemists with experience in a wide range of chemical, physical and microbiological analysis.
- Drinking water
- Wastewater and treated wastewater
- Industrial effluents
- Surface water
- Groundwater
- Sludges and composts
- Soil
- Seepage water
- Various other commodities
Cydna laboratory prides itself in having a high degree of sophisticated instrumentation which allows accurate analysis down to low concentration levels.
MODERN HIGH-TECH EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE INCLUDES:
- Flow Injection analysers (FIA)
- Gas chromatographs /Mass spectrometer (GC/MC)
- Gas chromatograph (GC)
- Inductively coupled plasma/Optical emission spectometer (ICP/OES)
- Inductively coupled plasma/Mass spectometer (ICP/MS)
- Laboratory information management system (LIMS)
- Discrete analysers
- Colilert equipment
THE TESTS PERFORMED AT CYDNA LAB ARE:
- Physical determinants
- Organic compounds
- Mineral compounds
- Microbiological tests
- Trace elements
- Metals
- Pesticides
- Sludge dewaterbility
- On-line and in-situ monitoring of wastewater treatment processes
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